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" Blessed is he that considereth the jwor, the Lord will deliver him in 
time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he 
shall be blessed upon the earth; and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will 
of his enemies." — Psalm xli : i, 2. 

It was on last Wednesday that, standing upon the steps 
of the Parker House, Boston, in School Street, my attention 
was arrested by a procession. As they came up, I saw a 
soldierly body of colored men with muskets reversed, the 
silent band following, with officers' corps behind it, their 
swords reversed, and then the carriages, following the 
hearse that bore — dust to dust — all that remained on earth 
of Wendell Phillips. The streets could not hold the crowd, 
and he whom the mob had sought once and again to tear 
to pieces now drew tears on every side from the mob, and 
the obsequious city sought to make up its vulgar scorn of 
other days by its worshipful attention. 

It is respecting this man and his times that I shall, very 
briefly and imperfectly, speak this morning. 

Fifty years ago, during my college life, I was chosen by 
the Athenian Society to debate the question of African 
Colonization, which then was new, fresh and enthusiastic. 
Garrison was then just kindling into that fire-brand, a 
brand of fire that never went out until slavery was 
consumed. Wendell Phillips, a young lawyer, had just be- 
gun his career. Fortunately, I was assigned to the nega- 
tive side of the question, and in preparing to speak I pre- 
pared my whole life. I contended against colonization as 
a condition of emancipation, — enforced colonization was 

SuNDAV Morning, Feb. lo, 1884. Lesson : Jno. xviii : 19-40. Hymns (Plymouth Col- 
lection) : Nos. 199, 1020, 1040. 409 



4IO PLYMOUTH PULPIT. 

but little better than enforced slavery, — and advocated im- 
mediate emancipation on the broad ground of human 
rights. I knew but very little then, but I knew this, that all 
men are designed of God to be free, a fact which ought to 
be the text of every man's life — this sacredness of humanity 
as given of God, redeemed from animalism by Jesus Christ, 
crowned and clothed with rights that no law nor oppres- 
sion should dare touch. 

Nearly two generations have passed since then; the 
young men who are marching now from youth to manhood 
are little acquainted with the men or movements of those 
days, but a few gray heads are left that can recall all these 
scenes. It has been said that men are more ignorant of 
that part of history which immediately precedes their own 
lives, than of any other. Let us, therefore, throw some little 
light upon the history of those days that immediately pre- 
cede our own. 

At the beginning, in the history of this people. Slavery 
was the accident: it was introduced at a time before the 
world's eyes had been opened; it came in, indeed, under 
the cover of benevolence; it had not attained a very great 
estate for many years; and yet, in the days of its infancy, 
it so conflicted with the fundamental ideas on which our 
institutions and laws were based, that the Northern States 
got rid of it. Because the climate and husbandry were 
not favorable to it in the Northern States, they were helped 
to do it; but the spirit of liberty had taken on the moral 
element in New England, in New York, and in Pennsyl- 
vania; and so it was soon extinguished. In the South it 
became a very important industrial element. Rice, sugar, 
cotton were the trinity that dominated the industry of the 
South, and slave labor was favorable to this simple indus- 
try. It became, therefore, a pecuniary interest to the South, 
as it never was in the North. After a time the industry be- 
came so important that, although throughout all the South 
in the earlier days, men recognized slavery as a sin, and its 
existence as a great misfortune, and always hoped that the 
day would speedily come for emancipation; yet all those 
hopes and expectations were met and resisted and over- 



WENDELL PILLLLLPS. 411 

thrown by the fact that slavery became a political interest. 
It became the center which united every Southern State 
with every other, and gave unity to the party of the South; 
so that political reasons, rooted in pecuniary reasons, gave 
great strength to slavery and its propagandism in the 
South. The North emancipated; the South fortified. 

It has been said a thousand times, and every time 
falsely (it was said by one of the most eloquent sons of the 
South a few months ago in Cooper Union, where I pre- 
sided, but it was not the time nor a fitting place to expose 
the misstatement), it has been said that the North sold out, 
and having realized on their slaves invested in liberty as a 
better paying stock. 

This statement is absolutely untrue. It has no historical 
verity in Massachusetts. There, to some slight extent, 
slavery existed as it did not in Vermont, New Hampshire, 
and Maine, but died by a very simple legal decision, one case 
having been brought into the courts, and the courts deter- 
mining that it was inconsistent with the Declaration of 
Independence, and the Constitution sequent; and the man 
stood free. After that there was no enactment; nothing. 
Slavery perished of itself by that one single decision. 

In New York a bill was passed early for the gradual 
emancipation of slaves, and it was guarded in every way. 
On attaining a certain age they were to become free; up to 
that age they were the property of their masters, upon 
whom the responsibility of their support still rested with 
full weight. After a trial of some years it was considered 
a great deal better to be rid of the evil at once, and subse- 
quent legislation determined immediate emancipation. 
Now, as against those that falsely accused the integrity 
and love of liberty of this great State, let me say that if you 
will go back to the laws, and to the practice under them, 
you shall find that with the declaration of emancipation, 
both the primitive form of it and the subsequent form of 
it, the right of the slave or of the coming freedman was 
guaranteed, and his safety. 

No man was permitted to take a slave out of the State 
of New York without giving bond for his return, and if he 



412 PL YMO UTH P ULPIT. 

came back without his slave, unless he could prove that the 
slave had died, he was himself made a criminal, and sub- 
jected to criminal punishment; and there is reason to 
believe, in regard to the most of the comparatively few 
slaves that were in the State of New York, that their 
emancipation was a bona fide emancipation, and they never 
were sold South. 

Now and then a man can steal a horse; but we should 
not lay to the State from which it was taken the charge of 
abetting theft. There may have been single men or women 
spirited away; there may have been thieving; I know 
of none, I have heard of none, though there may have 
been; but whatever the statute could do to maintain the 
slave in his integrity and liberty was done, and substan- 
tially and generally it was effectual; and all this cheap 
wash of wild declamation that we hear going through the 
land, to the effect that the North sold out its slaves and 
then went into the business of emancipation, is simply false. 

The condition of the public mind throughout the North 
at the time that I came to the consciousness of public 
affairs, and was studying my profession, maybe described 
in one word, as the condition of imprisoned moral sense. All 
men, almost, agreed together in saying that "Slavery is 
wrong; but what can we do?" The compromise of our 
fathers included us; and fidelity to the agreements that had 
been made in the formation of our Constitution, of oui Con. 
federation first, and of our Constitution afterwards, was 
regarded everywhere as a moral obligation by men that 
hated slavery. " The compromises of the Constitution m.ust 
be respected," said the priest in the pulpit, said the 
politician in the field, said the statesman in public 
hall ; and men abroad, in England especially, could 
not understand what was the reason of the later hesitancy 
of President Lincoln, and of the people, when they had 
risen to arms, in declaring at once the emancipation of the 
slaves. There never has been in history an instance more 
notable in which, I think, the feelings and the moral sense 
of so large a number of people have been held in check for 
reasons of fidelity to obligations assumed in their behalf; 



WENDELL rillLLIPS. 413 

and I am bound to say that with all its faults and weak- 
nesses there has never been an instance more noble. That 
being the underlying moral element, the commercial ques- 
tion in the North very soon became, on the subject of 
slavery, what the industrial and political questions of the 
South had made it. It corrupted the manufacturer and the 
merchant. Throughout the whole North every man that 
could make anything by it regarded the South as his legal, 
lawful market; for the South did not manufacture. They 
had the cheap and vulgar husbandry of slavery. They 
could make more money with cotton than with corn or 
beef, or pork, or leather, or hats, or woodenware. Our 
Northern ships went South to get their forest timbers, and 
brought them to Connecticut to be made into wooden 
ware, and axe helves, and rake handles, and carried them 
right back to sell to the men whose axes had cut down the 
trees. 

The South manufactured nothing except slaves; it was a 
great manufacture, that; and the whole market of the North 
was bribed. Tlie harness makers, the wagon makers, the 
clock makers, makers of all manner of implements and 
goods, were subject to this bribery. Every manufactory, 
every loom as it clanked in the North, said: "Maintain 
not slavery, but the compromises of the Constitution," for 
that was the veil under which all these cries were contin- 
ually uttered. 

The distinction between the Anti-slavery men and Aboli- 
tionists was simply this: the Abolitionist disclaimed the 
obligation to maintain this Government and the promise 
of the Constitution; the Anti-slavery man recognized the 
binding obligation of the Constitution, and sought the 
emancipation of slaves by a more circuitous and gradual 
influence: but Abolitionism covered both terms. It was re- 
garded, however, throughout the North as a greater sin 
than Slavery itself; and none of you that are under thirty 
years of age can form an adequate conception of the public 
sentiment and feeling during the days of my young man- 
hood. A man that was known to be an Abolitionist had 
better be known to have tiie plague. Every door was shut 



414 PLYMOUTH PULPIT. 

to him. If he was born under circumstances that admitted 
him to the best society, he was the black sheep of the 
family. If he aspired, by fidelity, industry and genius, to 
good society, he was debarred. "An Abolitionist" was 
enough to put the mark of Cain upon any young man that 
arose in my early day, and until I was forty years of age, 
it was punishable to preach on the subject of liberty. It 
was enough to expel a man from church communion if he 
insisted on praying in the prayer-meeting for the liberation 
of the slaves. I am speaking the words of truth and sober- 
ness. The Church was dumb in the North, but not in the 
West. A marked distinction exists between the history of 
the new school of Presbyterian churches in the West and 
the Congregational churches, the Episcopal churches, the 
Methodist and Baptist churches in the North and East. 
The great publishing societies that were sustained by the 
contributions of the churches were absolutely dumb. 
Great controversies raged round about the doors of the 
Bible Society, of the Tract Society and of the American 
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The man- 
agers of these societies resorted to every shift except that 
of sending the gospel to the slaves. They would not send 
the Bible to the South; for, they said, "It is a punishable 
offence in most of the Southern States to teach a slave to 
read; and are we to go in the face of this State legislation 
and send the Bible South?" The Tract Society said: " We 
are set up to preach the gospel, not to meddle with politi- 
cal and industrial institutions." And so they went on 
printing tracts against tobacco and its uses, tracts against 
dancing and its abuses, and refusing to print a tract tha,t 
had a shadow of criticism on slavery! 

One of the most disgraceful things took place under the 
jurisdiction of Bishop Doane, of New Jersey, — I take it for 
granted, without his knowledge. I have the book. It was 
an edition of the Episcopal prayer-book. They had put into 
the front of it a steel engraving of Ary Scheffer's " Christus 
Consolator," — Christ the Consoler. There was a semi- 
circle around about the beneficent and aerial figure of our 
Saviour,— the poor, the old, the sick, the mother with her 



WENDELL PLLLLLLPS, 415 

dead babe, bowed in grief; every known form of human 
sorrow belonged to the original design and picture; and 
among others a fettered slave, with his hands lifted to 
heaven praying for liberty: but this was too much; and so 
they cut out the slave, and left the rest of the picture, and 
bound it into the Episcopal prayer-book of New Jersey. I 
have a copy of it, which I mean to leave to the Historical 
Society of Brooklyn when I am done using it. 

These things are important as showing the incredible 
condition of public sentiment at that time. If a man came 
known to be an anti-slavery man it almost preluded bank- 
ruptcy in business. 

You remember, some of you, the black list that was 
framed and sent all over the South, of men that were sus- 
pected of being Abolitionists in New York city. The 
South undertook to boycott the whole North. Then it 
was that I drew up the sentence for a then member 
of this church, " I have goods for sale, but not principles." 
Resistance was a blight to all political hope. No man 
could have the slightest expectation of rising in politics 
that did not bow the knee to Baal. A derisive laugh was 
the only answer with which exhortations to nobility and 
manhood were received. This public sentiment was 
worse in the North than it was anywhere else, and in the 
Northeast worse than in the West, on account of the ex- 
tent of manufacturing and commerce here. 

When I came to Brooklyn I was exhorted not to meddle 
with so unpopular a subject. '' What is the use? '' was 
said to me by a venerable master in Israel; "why should 
you lose your influence? Why don't you go on and preach 
the gospel?" to which I replied,"! don't know any gos- 
pel of that kind. My gospel has in it the breaking of 
prison bars and shackles, the bringing forth of prisoners, 
and if I can't preach that I won't preach at all." The very 
first sermon that I ever preached before this congregation 
— or rather, the congregation that met me — was the dec- 
laration of my principles on temperance, on peace and 
war, and above all, on the subject of slavery. For years 
and years just prior to the renting of the pews, I came out 



4 1 6 PL VMO UTH P ULPIT. 

like thunder on the subject of slavery; for I told my people 
that they need not think that they could dine me out of 
my principles, nor smooth me out of them, nor in any way 
make the pews an argument to me of prudence in the mat- 
ter of principle. 

The church rose steadily, in spite of the abolitionism of 
the pastor. Yet, if a colored man at that time had come 
into the church he would have been an object of observa- 
tion, and the cause of some grumbling, though not of re- 
volt in this church, thank God. There never has been a 
day since I became the pastor of Plymouth Church that a 
cleanly dressed respectable colored man or woman could 
not have come in and taken a seat here. It would have ex- 
cited among a great many a good deal of trouble; but this 
congregation has been of that mind, and never the result 
of my undertaking to enforce it. I never preached on that 
subject. I never said to the people in this congregation, 
from the beginning to this day, " You ought to let colored 
folks sit in your pew." I preached the dignity of man as 
a child of God; and lifted up the sanctity of human life 
and nature before the people. They made the application, 
and they made it wisely and well. 

When I came here there was no place for colored men 
and women in the theater except the negro pen; no place 
in the opera; no place in the church except the negro pew; 
no place in any lecture hall; no place in the first-class car 
on the railways. The white omnibus of Fulton Ferry 
would not allow colored persons to ride in it. They were 
never allowed to sit even in the gentlemen's cabin on 
the boats. 

I invited Fred, Douglass, one day, in those times, to come 
to church here. " I should be glad to, sir," said he; " but 
it would be so offensive to your congregation." " Mr. 
Douglass, will you come? and if any man objects to it, 
come up and sit on my platform by me. You will always 
be welcome there." 

I mention these things simply to show what was the 
state of feeling that existed everywhere twenty-five or 
thirty years ago. Existed! Swept through the land as a 



WENDELL PHLLLJPS. 417 

Sultry sirocco sweeps through the desert, scorclilng and 
blasting public sentiment. 

It was at the beginning of this Egyptian era in America 
that the young aristocrat of Boston appeared. His blood 
came through the best colonial families. He was an aris- 
tocrat by descent and by nature — a noble one, but a thor- 
ough aristocrat. All his life and power assumed that 
guise. He was noble, he was full of kindness to inferiors, 
he was willing to be and do and suffer for them; but he 
was never of them, nor did he ever equal himself to them. 
He was always above them; and his gifts of love were 
always the gifts of a prince to his subjects. All his life 
long he resented every attack on his person and on his 
honor as a noble aristocrat would. When they poured the 
filth of their imaginations upon him, he cared no more for 
it than the eagle cares what the fly is thinking about him 
away down under the cloud. All the miserable traffickers, 
all the scribblers and all the aristocratic boobies of Bos- 
ton were no more to him than mosquitos are to the behe- 
moth or to tlie lion. He was aristocratic in his pride, and 
lived higher than most men lived. He was called of God 
as truly as ever Moses and the Prophets were: not exactly 
for the same great ends, but in consonance with those 
great ends. 

The elder ones remember when Lovejoy was infa- 
mously slaughtered by a mob in Alton, and blood was shed 
that has been the seed of liberty all over this land. I re- 
member it. At this time, it was, that Channing lifted U|) 
his voice, and declared that the moral sentiment of Boston 
ought to be uttered in rebuke of that infamy and cruelty, 
and asked for Faneuil Hall in which to call a public 
meeting. This was indignantly refused by the Common 
Council of Boston. Being a man of wide influence, he 
gathered around about himself enough venerable and in- 
fluential old citizens of that city to make a denial of their 
united request a perilous thing; and Faneuil Hall was 
granted to call a public meeting to express itself on this 
subject of the murder of Lovejoy. The meeting was made 
up largely o& rowdies. They meant to overawe and put 



4i8 PL Y MOUTH P ULPIT. 

down all other expressions of opinion except those that 
then rioted with the riotous. United States District At- 
torney Austin (vvhcn Wendell Phillips' name is written in 
letters of light on one side of the monument, down low on 
the other side, and spattered with dirt, let the name of 
Austin also be written) made a truculent speech, and justi- 
fied the mob, and ran the whole career of the sewer of 
those days, and justified non-interference with slavery. 
Wendell Phillips, just come to town as a young lawyer 
without at present any practice, practically unknown ex- 
cept to his own family, fired with the infamy, and feeling 
called of God in his soul, went upon the platform. His 
first utterances brought down the hisses of the mob. He 
was not a man very easily subdued by any mob. They 
listened as he kindled and poured on that man Austin the 
fire and lava of a volcano; and he finally turned the course 
of the feeling of the meeting. Practically unknown when 
the sun went down one day, when it rose the next morn- 
ing all Boston was saying, "Who is this fellow? who is 
this Phillips?" — a question that has never been asked 
since! 

Thenceforth he was a flaming advocate of liberty, with 
singular advantages over all other pleaders. Mr. Garrison 
was not noted as a speaker; yet his tongue was his pen. 
Mr. Phillips was not much given to the pen, his pen was 
his tongue, and no other like speaker has ever graced our 
history, I do not undertake to saj' that he surpassed all 
others. He had an intense individuality, and that intense 
individuality ranked him among the noblest orators that 
have ever been born tc this continent, or I may say to our 
mother land. He adopted in. full the tenets of Garrison, 
which were excessively disagreeable to ihe whole public 
mind. The ground which he took was that which Garri- 
son took. Seeing that the conscience of the North was 
smothered and mute by reason of supposed obligations to 
the compromises of the Constitution, Garrison declared 
that the compromises of the Constitution were covenants 
with hell, and that no man was bound to observe them. 
This extreme ground Mr. Phillips also took — immediate. 



WENDF.T.T. PinrjJPS. 419 

unconditional, universal emancipation at any cost whatso- 
ever. That was Garrisonism; that was Wendell Phillips- 
ism; and it would seem as though the Lord rather leaned 
that way too. 

I shall not discuss the merits of Mr. Garrison nor of Mr. 
Phillips in every direction. I shall say that while the duty 
of immediate emancipation without conditions was unques- 
tionably the right ground, yet in the providence of God 
even that could not be brought to pass except through the 
mediation of very many events. It is a remarkable thing 
that Mr. Phillips and Mr. Garrison both renounced the 
Union and denounced the Union in the hope of destroy- 
ing slavery; whereas the providence of God protected the 
love of the Union when it was assailed by the South, and 
made the love of the Union the enthusiasm that carried 
the great war of emancipation through. It was the very 
antithesis of the ground which they took. Like John Brown, 
Mr. Garrison; like John Brown, Mr. Phillips; of a heroic 
spirit, seeking the great end nobly, but by measures not 
well adapted to directly secure the end. 

Little by little the controversy spread. I shall not trace 
it. I am giving you simply the atmosphere in which Mr. 
Phillips sprang into being and into power. His career was 
a career of thirty or forty years of undiminished eagerness. 
He never quailed nor flinched, nor did he ever at any time 
go back one step, or turn in the slightest degree to the right 
or left. He gloried in his cause, and in that particular as- 
pect of it which had selected him. 

He stood on this platform. It is a part of the sweet 
and pleasant memories of my comparative youth here, 
that when the mob refused to let him speak in the 
Broadway Tabernacle before it was moved uptown — 
the old Tabernacle — William A. Hall, now dead, a fervent 
friend and abolitionist, had secured the Graham Institute, 
on Washington Street, in Brooklyn, wherein to hold a 
meeting where Mr. Phillips should be heard. I had 
agreed to pray at the opening of the meeting. On the 
morning of the day on which it was to have taken place, I 
was visited by the committee of that Institute (excellent 



420 PL YMO UTH P ULPI T. 

gentlemen, whose feelings will not be hurt, because they 
are all now ashamed of it; they are in heaven), who said 
that in consequence of the great peril that attended a meet- 
ing at the Institute, they had withdrawn the liberty to use 
it, and .paid back the money, and that they called simply to 
say that it was out of no disrespect to me, but from fidelity 
to their supposed trust. Well, it was a bitter thing. If 
there is anything on earth that I am sensitive to, it is the 
withdrawing of the liberty of speech and thought. Henry 
C. Bowen, who certainly has done some good things in his 
lifetime, said to me, "You can have Plymouth Church if 
you want it." "How?" "It is the rule of the church 
trustees that the church may be let by a majority vote 
when we are convened; but if we are not convened, then 
every trustee must give his assent in writing. If you choose 
to make it a personal matter, and go to every trustee, you 
can have it." He meanwhile undertook, with Mr. Hall, to 
put new placards over the old ones, notifying men, quietly, 
that the meeting was to be held here, and distributed 
thousands and tens of thousands of hand-bills at the fer- 
ries. No task was ever more welcome. I went to the 
trustees man by man. The majority of them very cheer- 
fully accorded the permission. One or two of them were 
disposed to decline and withhold it. I made it a matter of 
personal friendship. " You and I will break if you don't 
give me this permission;" and they signed. So the meet- 
ing glided from the Graham Institute to this house. A 
great audience assembled. We had detectives in disguise,, 
and every arrangement made to handle the subject in a 
practical form if the crowd should undertake to molest us. 
The Rev. Dr. R. S. Storrs consented to come and pray; for 
Mr. Wendell Phillips was by marriage a near and intimate 
friend and relation of his. The reporters were here — when 
were they ever not? A gentleman was called to preside over 
the meeting who had been known to be an abolitionist al- 
most from his cradle; but he was personally a timid man, 
though morally courageous. When I put the sense of the 
meeting that he should preside, he got up and was so 
scared that he could not be heard. He muttered that he 



WENDELL PHLLLLPS. 42 1 

tliought some other man might have been chosen. I called 
him by name and said, "You are selected to preside, sir." 
He got up again — "Will you be kind enough to come up 
here and preside, sir?" But for fear that he would be 
worse bombarded by not doing it than he would by doing 
it, he came up. Prayer was uttered. An explanatory 
statement was made. Mr. Phillips began his lecture; and 
you may depend upon it by this time the lion was in him, 
and he went careering on. His views were extreme, he 
made them extravagant. I remember atone point, — for he 
was a man without bluster; serene, self-noised, never dis- 
turbed in the least, — he made an affirmation that was very 
bitter, and a cry arose over the whole congregation. He 
stood still, with a cold, bitter smile on his face and look in 
his eye, and waited till they subsided, when he repeated it 
with more emphasis. Again the roar went through. He 
waited, and repeated it if possible more intensely; and he 
beat them down with that one sentence, until they were 
still and let him go on. 

The power to discern right amid all the wrappings of in- 
terest and all the seductions of ambition was singularly his. 
To choose the lowly for their sake; to abandon all favor, 
all power, all comfort, all ambition, all greatness — that 
was his genius and glory. He confronted the spirit of the 
nation and of the age. I had almost said, he set himself 
against nature, as if he had been a decree of God overrid- 
ing all these other insuperable obstacles. That was his 
function. Mr. Phillips was not called to be a universal ora- 
tor any more than he was a universal thinker. In literature 
and in history he was widely read; in pei'son most elegant; 
in manners most accomplished; gentle as a babe; sweet as 
a new-blown rose; in voice, clear and silvery. He was 
not a man of tempests; he was not an orchestra of a hun- 
dred instruments; he was not an organ, mighty and com- 
j)lex. The nation slept, and God wanted a trumpet, sharp, 
far-sounding, narrow and intense; and that was Mr. 
Phillips. The long roll is not particularly agreeable in 
music or in times of peace, but it is better than flutes or harps 
when men are in a great battle, or are on the point of it. 



422 PLYMOUTH PULPTT. 

His eloquence was penetrating and alarming. He did not 
flow as a mighty gulf stream; he did not dash upon the 
continent as the ocean does; he was not a mighty rushing 
river. His eloquence was a flight of arrows, sentence after 
sentence, polished, and most of them burning. He shot 
them one after the other, and where they struck they slew; 
always elegant, always awful. I think scorn in him was as 
fine as I ever knew it in any human being. He had that 
sublime sanctuary in his pride that made him almost in- 
sensitive to what would by other men be considered ob- 
loquy. It was a§ if he said every day, in himself, " I am 
not what they are firing at. I am not there, and I am not 
that. It is not against me. I am infi.nitely superior to 
what they think me to be. They do not know me." It was 
quiet and unpretentious, but it was there. Conscience and 
pride were the two concurrent elements of his nature. 

He lived to see the slave emancipated, but not by moral 
means. He lived to see the sword cut the fetter. After 
this had taken place he was too young to retire, though too 
old to gather laurels of literature or to seek professional 
honors. The impulse of humanity was not at all abated. 
His soul still flowed on for the great under masses of man- 
kind, though like the Nile it split up into diverse mouths, 
and not all of them were navigable. 

After a long and stormy life his sun went down in 
glory. All the English-speaking people on the globe have 
written among the names that shall never die, the name 
of that scoffed, detested, mob-beaten Wendell Phillips. 
Boston, that persecuted and would have slain him, is now 
exceedingly busy in building his tomb and rearing his 
statue. The men that would not defile their lips with his 
name are to-day thanking God that he lived. 

He has taught a lesson that the young will do well to 
take heed to — the lesson that the most splendid gifts and 
opportunities and ambitions may be best used for tlie dumb 
and the lowly. His whole life is a rebuke to the idea that 
we are to climb to greatness by climbing up on the backs 
of great men; that we are to gain strength by running with 
the currents of life; that we can from without add anything 



WENDELL PllILLirS. 423 

to the great within that constitutes man. He poured out 
the precious ointment of his soul upon the feet of that dif- 
fusive Jesus who suffers here in his poor and despised ones. 
He has taught the young ambitions too — that the way to 
glory is the way, oftentimes, of adhesion simply to princi- 
ple; and that popularity and unpopularity are not things to 
be known or considered. Do right and rejoice. If to do 
right will bring you into trouble, rejoice that you are 
counted worthy to suffer with God and the providences of 
God in this world. 

He belongs to the race of giants, not simply because he 
was in and of himself a great soul, but because he bathed 
in the providence of God, and came forth scarcely less than 
agod; because he gave himself to the work of God upon 
earth, and inherited thereby, or had reflected upon him, 
some of the majesty of his master. When pigmies are all 
dead, the noble countenance of Wendell Phillips \\\\\ still 
look forth, radiant as a rising sun — a sun that will neverset. 
He has become to us a lesson, his death an example, his 
whole history an encouragement to manhood — to heroic 
manhood. 



424 PL VMO UTH r ULPI T. 



PRAYER BEFORE THE SERMON. 

We come into thy presence, our Father, to give thanks. Our sorrows are 
gone. They came like the clouds and like the rain, and, like the rain, they 
are at the root, giving birth in us to things fair and fruitful. When we look 
back upon our lives and see how we deplored that which now seems benefi- 
cent, we are filled with the sense of our own unreasoning folly, and of our 
sins, and are inspired to call out, " Thy will be done, not ours." Be thou 
thought for us. Thou that art Love, let the summer spread abroad over 
us, that in thy love all things may grow, for thy fear and the terror of thy 
law are as Winter, in which we shiver and tremble, but never grow. Give 
to us, then, all-nourishing love. Give to us the consciousness of thine own 
faithfulness, that in thee there may be to our thought all that is dear and 
beautiful in human love, and transcendently more. For how often do love 
and weakness go together ! but they are eternally strong. How often do 
love and self-deception march together ! but thou knowest all things, and 
art never deceived. How often does love itself faint and grow weary and 
die ! but thou that art from eternity art invariable; there is with thee no 
shadow of turning. Our smallness doth not lead thee to despise us. Our 
folly and weakness do not disgust thee. Often our baseness thou dost de- 
spise, as a parent; but still thou dost not give us up, and wilt not until thou 
hast wrought out in us the lines and lineaments of thine own self. 

Eternal Father and I^over, bring us into the full beatitude of faith in 
thee, because thou art Father and Lover; and may we lean upon thee, and 
catch the inspiration of thy nobleness, and work our way together with thee 
up toward the blessed states in which thou dost dwell. If there are those 
that are beclouded, in whose heaven there is no sun of righteousness, whose 
nights have no stars, thou that out of chaos didst evolve order and progres- 
sion, bring forth light to those that are in darkness; and may great light 
arise to them. Thou that hast compassion evermore upon the captive, look 
upon those that are bound hand and foot in evil, and have compassion upon 
them.. If any are seeking to break through their adversaries, and the tempt- 
ations that surround them on every hand, Lord, be on their side, and let 
them know that thou art, that they may take courage, and that they may 
hope, not in their own strength and skill, but in the fidelity of their God. 

We pray that thus we may find thee a Tower; and when the battle is too 
strong for us, may we run in unto thee, the Shadow of a great rock in a 
weary land, when the heat hath spent itself upon us, that we may find at 
last refreshment and rest. Be all in ail; and so may we live in the fullness 
of a holy trust and joy that we shall be prepared, when we live again and 
really live, to enter into thy thought, thy sympathy and thy works. 



WENDELL PHILLIPS. 425 

Look, we pray thee, upon all the households of this great congregation. 
Bring to every family, peace; health, if there be sickness; strength, if there 
be weakness; guidance, if there be perplexity. All that they need may they 
find in thee, giving thanks from day to day. We pray that thy blessing 
may rest upon all thy servants that are inspired to preach Christ, whether in 
the household, by the way, in our schools, or in all the neighborhoods 
where their zeal and kindness carries them. May they be permitted to dis- 
cern the glory of thy face, and see thee as in a perpetual transfiguration; 
and as thou wert lifted up, and thy head shone against the sky, while thy 
feet were not far from the earth, thus may our Christ be to us, so near to 
the earth, that at least we may touch his feet, and so near to heaven that wc 
may discern something of the upper glory. 

We pray, O Lord, that thou wilt give to us tranquillity and rest, not as 
those that seek their rest in their own perfectness, or in their outward con- 
ditions, but as those that rest in God. Be God enough to us to be our con- 
solation in every time of affliction. Be thou our Leader, that we may be 
willing to do and love to do the things that God would have us do. May we 
not too much hear the voices of men; may we be apt to hear the silent voice 
of God speaking to the conscience within us; and knowing thy will may we 
dismiss all anxiety, nor care whether men hate, or whether they disregard; 
whether they curse or whether they bless. 

May we rest in the Lord, and be strong in the Lord, and finally live in 
the Lord; and to thy name shall be the praise, ]'"ather, Son, and Spirit. 
Amen. 



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